【正文】 . Left side of mostly people39。學(xué)習(xí)和運(yùn)用正確的餐桌禮儀，已不僅僅是自身形象的需要，更是提高雙效益、提升競爭力的需要。s left side seat is the fourth head seat. In western countries, they usually use long table, while China use round table. In western, the host and hostess sit at the both sides, and then bases on the importance to arrange the seats. Near the host and the hostess is more important while farther is less important, the rest will be deduced by this analogy. E、 Customary action on table In China, usually we cannot stand up to nip food and it is not so polite. Men will hand round cigarettes to each other during the meal, especially the host. In western, they obey many rules, too. Take the different usage of facility for example: Chinese use chopsticks to eat, while western people use knife as their tool. Different table utensils make different customs when they want to have a rest during the meal. In China, Chopsticks can be rested horizontally on one39。 TAIZHOU VOCATIONALamp。s plate or bowl to keep them off the table entirely． A chopstick rest can also be used to keep the points off the table. 7 Never stab chopsticks into a bowl of rice and leave them standing upwards. Any sticklike object facing upward resembles the incense sticks that some Asians use as offerings to deceased family members. This is considered the ultimate faux pas on the dining table. In western countries, when they want to leave the table while having the meal, they must ask the host or hostess to be excused before leaving the table. At the same time, they must put the dinner cloth on the middle of the chair and put the edge of knife towards oneself. Every having finished one course, hold the knife and fork together. If you want to talk to other you needn’t put down the knife, hold it is ok. When you have finished your meal, place your knife and fork side by side on the plate. This signals that you have finished eating. Ⅲ . The causes of different dining customs between the West and China There are variety reasons to cause the culture conflict between China and Western countries, as to it’s root, they have different cultures and different history backgrounds which causes different ideas and behaviors, even is conflict. Let’s look the following major causes in details A、 Different time concepts As there are different cultures and customs between china and western, our education is different, too. So, we accept the different views on the time concept. The westerners always bine time and money view together, they think time is important as the money. In their mind, time cannot waste for it is limited. They value their time very much.